Stephen Mann
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HD-DVD
Remember the Blu-Ray v HD-DVD “wars” of a few years ago?
Steve Mann
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When I read this: “Windows XP Home limits file sharing to the contents of a folder called the Shared Files folder” I knew that the reviewer does not know PCs, so I took everything else with a grain of salt.
Network rendering never worked well – I never heard from a user who thought it was worth the effort. The option was possibly viable when the fastest PC available was an 800MHz Pentium and all digital video was AVI. Now that 2.5GHz, 4-core PCs are more common, network rendering simply is not needed by the vast majority of users. The setup and overhead time would more than consume any advantages gained. Adobe Premiere and FCP don’t do it either, as far as I can tell. Avid doesn’t do it.
Hollywood studios can do it for a few reasons – they can afford it. You can buy a single license of Autodesk Flame for the low, low price of $129,000 per workstation. Hollywood level CGI rendering is always uncompressed, so the distributed rendering and reassembly can work. But the software is hugely expensive since the market for it is very small. Also, be prepared to buy a LOT of hard disk capacity. Uncompressed CMYK 8-bit, the highest resolution Hollywood works with is 37.7 MB per frame. About 1GB per second.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Yes, Vegas 8 did offer network rendering, but it only worked with i-frame only media, which at the time was AVI. Since AVI is rarely used today, it didn’t make sense to continue the feature. In my opinion.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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The short answer is “No”.
If you mean splitting the rendering of one project among multiple networked processors – then no. Network rendering only works with uncompressed formats – where every frame is an i-frame.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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“don’t ever install your page file in a drive slower than the drive where Windows is installed”
That’s an interesting observation, I’ll have to do some testing (It should be easy since I still have a floppy drive). Is this something you experienced or advice you picked up from someone else?
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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” different Windows user account”
And there may be your problem. To see what paths Vegas is looking into for project components, open Vegas, Options and shift-click on “Preferences”. Click on the “Internal” tab. At the bottom in the filter box, type “path”.
Warning, do not change anything in the internal tab without knowing what you are doing as you can truly screw up Vegas.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Fix it? I didn’t know it was broken. I just run it practically every day with very few problems. Usually user-induced.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Since K-Lite was introduced into this thread, do NOT install K-lite codec pack on your editing PC. K-Lite codecs are optimized for game playback and have really crappy encode functions. You risk overwriting the otherwise good codecs installed by Vegas.
Your video will play on various viewers like VLC and Wondershare because they use their own codecs – not the installed codecs on your PC.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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“I hope others will find it useful.”
That’s the real purpose of the forums.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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